> The Post-Socialist & Post-Social Democratic Era = the Third Way = the
> Progress of the Empire = Globalization = an apolitical American boy
> growing up watching cheap Japanese Anime, playing video games,
> masturbating with the help of cartoon damsels in distress.
Oh please. The only equation I see here is FLSHM = FRRHM (Far Left Sectarian Hyper Moralism equals Far Right Religious Hyper Moralism). Japanese anime and the videogame culture are complex, multifaceted forms, with lots of junk and some genuinely stellar works of art, worth ferreting out and analyzing. Conversely, the modernist film canon is just that: a canon, the select few works out of thousands of crappy, horrid B-grade productions. But hey, who needs concrete analysis of the totality, when we can sneer at wanker otaku instead!
-- Dennis